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What is the Gospel?

Discussion in '2000-02 Archive' started by Rev. G, Sep 23, 2002.

  1. Scott_Bushey

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    Mark,
    You write:
    "As for the infant and embecile, they are not accountable for their sin because they have no knowledge of if. "Sin is not imputed where there is no law"

    Scott asks:
    Is this a scripturally harmonious idea? There has always been Gods law. You are implying here that every infant or imbecile, young child, that dies and that doesn't understand sin goes to Heaven. How can this be?
    Scripture is crystal clear; All have sinned.

    The scripture reads:
    Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
    Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
    Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
    Rom 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

    John Gill writes:
    Further, to clear this, he shows that sin did not commence with the law of
    Moses, but was in the world until, or before, that law; therefore that law of
    Moses is not the only rule of life, for there was a rule, and that rule was
    transgressed, before the law was given. It likewise intimates that we
    cannot be justified by our obedience to the law of Moses, any more than
    we were condemned by and for our disobedience to it. Sin was in the
    world before the law; witness Cain's murder, the apostasy of the old world,
    the wickedness of Sodom. His inference hence is, Therefore there was a
    law; for sin is not imputed where there is no law. Original sin is a want of
    conformity to, and actual sin is a transgression of, the law of God:
    therefore all were under some law. His proof of it is, Death reigned from
    Adam to Moses, v. 14. It is certain that death could not have reigned if sin
    had not set up the throne for him. This proves that sin was in the world
    before the law, and original sin, for death reigned over those that had not
    sinned any actual sin, that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's
    transgression, never sinned in their own persons as Adam did — which is
    to be understood of infants, that were never guilty of actual sin, and yet
    died, because Adam's sin was imputed to them. This reign of death seems
    especially to refer to those violent and extraordinary judgments which
    were long before Moses, as the deluge and the destruction of Sodom,
    which involved infants. It is a great proof of original sin that little
    children, who were never guilty of any actual transgression, are yet liable
    to very terrible diseases, casualties, and deaths, which could by no means
    be reconciled with the justice and righteousness of God if they were not
    chargeable with guilt.

    In closing, Adams sin has spread virally to every person, even infants. This one sin is enough to send non elect children straight to hell. Does this offend my flesh, pondering a child going to hell? Actually it does. But scripture is clear, the elect will be saved. Not for any reason other than Gods good grace. Does an elect person deserve being saved? No! Everyone deserves hell.
     
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